It is a proven fact that heat escapes a home basically in two ways: through poorly fitted and insulated doors and windows, and through bad, clumsy, wasteful, outdated heating systems. For the first problem, you can do your best to insulate your doors and windows, and perhaps (in the case of your windows) switch from single-pane to double-pane. For the second problem you may want to consider changing your heating system. After all, the US department of energy informs us that 44 percent of our utility bills is poured into our heating and cooling systems. Electric underfloor heating has been vigorously tested and compared with other heating systems; the result? Electric underfloor heating is 40 percent more effective than these other systems. Electric underfloor heating is 40 percent less wasteful than these other systems. Electric underfloor heating, warm on the toes and easy on the wallet, heats a room precisely where it needs to be heated - the floor - or, the bottom six feet of the room, where you are, where your children are, where your coworkers are. With electric underfloor heating, you have a wide area right beneath you radiating cozy, subtle warmth, rather than that warmth being shot from vents straight into the air so that it travels to the ceiling where it hovers around uselessly. These other, forced air systems, while more traditional and familiar than electric underfloor heating, are nevertheless much more wasteful and unproductive. That they keep the top three to five feet of a room all toasty and warm is good news for your head but bad news for the rest of your body and for your wallet.
The way that electric underfloor heating works has been compared to an electric blanket. A very thin electric mat is combined with a very thin layer of cement, and is controlled and operated by a timer-thermostat. Heat resistant wires weave throughout the mat, and the whole device is safe, fairly uncomplicated to install, and, most importantly, effective, effective, effective when it comes to heating your home through and through while saving you more money than you could have thought possible under the old system. Installing electric underfloor heating in your average bathroom costs anywhere from $500 to $700, and will operate on less than ten cents a day in electrical costs!
Perhaps best of all, electric underfloor heating requires no maintenance, no upkeep, in order to continue operating smoothly and thriftily. There's no boiler to fiddle with, no water to empty and refill; it's simply installed and run. After an initial investment, you have warm, economical heating through your floors, meaning goodbye to those awful winter mornings and enormous utility bills.